PiATE 2193 



APHYLLOBCHIS ? VAGINATA, HooJc.f. 



Orciudeje. Snbtribe Diuride^. 



A? vagina ta, Hooh /. FL Brit. Ltd. vi. 117; caule robusto 



va^inis infra medium tubnlosis dein oratis obtusis laxe vestito, spica 

 paueiflora, bracteis ovaria sabcequantibus, sepalis oblongo-ovatis obtusis, 

 petalis lanceolatis acuminatis, labello ovato-lanceolato, columna brevi- 

 nscnla. 



Hab. Kbasia Hills, in woods at Maraloo, alt. 5,000 feet, J. D- 

 Hooker and T. Thomson. 



Caulis 6-polIicaris, erectus ; vagin(B i-polHcares, membraDaceje. 

 Tlradece infirafe oblongo-lanceolatfe, supuriores angustiores. Flores 

 erccti, luride rubri. Sepala -^ poll, longa, S^nervia, Petala 1-nervia. 

 Labelhim sepalis cequilongum, sessile, planum, ecallosum. 



I found only one specimen of this curious plant, -wLich in its dried 

 state is difiicult of examination. The plate represents it m a sup- 

 posed restored condition—that is, considerably enlarged in all itsparts — 

 and with the lip much narro^ver than in the flower I examined and 

 described in the ' Flora of British India,' in which it is broader than 

 the sepals. It differs from the previously described species of the 

 genus in the lip and column ; but it is not safe to draw any conclusions 

 from a solitary (probably distorted) specimen, the object in figuring 

 which is to direct the attention of Indian botanists to a very curious 

 plant, presumably a saprophyte. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1. Ibwer. Enlarged. 



